From the course: Data Curation Foundations
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Overview of front-end curation
From the course: Data Curation Foundations
Overview of front-end curation
- [Narrator] Now that you know about back-end curation, let's talk about front-end curation. In the last video I talked about back-ends and how production back-ends have all these tables with categorical variables to document. In this video, we are focusing on front-ends, which is a whole different ball game. We still have the challenge of relationship problems but this time the relationships that need to be documented are the connections between the front-end and the back-end. Remember you don't even need a front-end to have a data system. So if you're going to have one, how does it hook onto the back-end? That's essentially the main issue in front-end data curation. Here is literally what I mean. Let's say you have a front-end, maybe your bank account online. You might see a transaction displayed. Maybe you purchased a coffee at a cafe. You see the values of the data fields in your front end. Maybe you see the name…
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